Composer Max Giteck Duykers and librettist Philip Kan Gotanda have crafted an opera focusing on a family caught up in World War II.
The conductor and composer is sticking around in California even as he’s set to depart the SF Symphony at the end of this season.
With Järvi conducting, the orchestra approaches Mahler’s Seventh with admirable risk and excitement, if not the polish of performances under MTT.
